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Chip designer ARM Holdings on Tuesday unveiled a new processor blueprint with improved computing performance and beefed-up graphics aimed at smartphones and tablets to be launched next year. ARM's new Cortex-A72 processor design and related technology improvements come as the smartphone industry struggles with cooling demand after years of explosive growth sparked by Apple Inc's iPhone in 2007.

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will be releasing its next big Office suite this year. It's called Office 2016, and the announcement comes on the heels of its big Windows 10 event. Microsoft has been focusing more on optimizing Office for mobile, but Office 2016 is best for desktop computers. It will be available in the second half of 2015. General Manager Julia White wrote, "We will have more to share on Office 2016 in the coming months, but this suite will remain the comprehensive Office experience you’re long familiar with, best suited for a PC with keyboard and mouse."

HP has announced seven new tablets and an ultrabook/tablet hybrid, and also released new research on European IT decision-makers' current and planned enterprise mobility strategies. Front and centre is HP's determination to add software and services to the basic device offering. Michael Park, vice president & general manager of HP's Commercial Mobility & Software business unit said: "When we talk about mobility in the enterprise, if you just do the device, it's not enough: it's the apps and the device for the end user, but also connectivity -- how to deliver the apps out of the data center -- and the scale of the sheer number of devices per user."

We have a number of Apple products our family uses. We also have Windows. And gawd help me we have some Android OS devices. As long as the **** thing works the way I work I don't care who's logo is on it. That's what I like about Apple's stuff but I do love to read people who grouse every time a new whatever is introduced by the company. They expect every whatever to be a homerun and that's like stupid ridiculous. They've done a helluva job meeting consumer needs folks didn't even know they had and Tim is doing a great job at least important folks (stockholders) think so. I know you're waiting for them to stumble so you can say "see I told you so," but no one bats 1000...no one.